Col. Samuel Potter

A Patriot of the American Revolution for NEW JERSEY with the rank of COLONEL. Ancestor #: A091772

JEMIMA4,John3,Jonathan2 was b. in Newark, NJ., about 1730. "Littell's Passaic Genealogy" gives the following account of her: "She married COL. SAMUEL POTTER3,Daniel2,Samuel1, who d. July 11,1802, aged 76. His widow died Nov.25,1819, aged 89. He was an officer in the militia in the Revolution; an elder of and prominent in the Church of New Providence, also a Justice of the Peace.

• The Baldwin genealogy from 1500 to 1881 (1881), by Charles C. Baldwin, pg. 499. *www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~njmorris/passaicvalley/potter,htm*

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According to the DAR, he married Jemima Baldwin and had several children:

• ISAAC Potter (m. Abigail BEBOUT and/or Abigail SWAIN)
• ENOS Potter (m. Rhoda MILLER)
• SAMUEL Potter, Jr. (m. Sarah PARSONS)
• PRUDENCE Potter (m. Daniel HART)
• CALEB Potter (m. Phebe PARROT)